Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond (Community, Culture and Change)

by RexHaigh (Series Editor), HelenSpandler (Author), JanLees (Series Editor)

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  2006

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  Asylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement.